Aarvoll's argument for Reincarnation

[Herger The Joyous]

This is a video in which the Platonist philosopher Aarvoll presents an argument for reincarnation, borrowing from integrated information theory.
The theory is interesting and could easy be recast in an idealist metaphysic. Other philosophers like Michael Huemer and Tom Clark have presented similar theories of reincarnation which I find compelling.



Imagine that you're about to fall asleep. As you fall asleep, your consciousness becomes simpler and simpler, eventually becoming infinitely simple, and then returning to more complex states: during dreams and upon waking up. This is also what death is. Death is a transition to a new region of the state space of consciousness. Death is a transition to a new life.

[AshvinP]

This is a video in which the Platonist philosopher Aarvoll presents an argument for reincarnation, borrowing from integrated information theory.
The theory is interesting and could easy be recast in an idealist metaphysic. Other philosophers like Michael Huemer and Tom Clark have presented similar theories of reincarnation which I find compelling.

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Imagine that you're about to fall asleep. As you fall asleep, your consciousness becomes simpler and simpler, eventually becoming infinitely simple, and then returning to more complex states: during dreams and upon waking up. This is also what death is. Death is a transition to a new region of the state space of consciousness. Death is a transition to a new life.

Herger,

What if it was possible to actually know the above as true, in the same way you know that you go to sleep and wake up every day? That is, to know it is an experiential reality, rather than a deductive speculation based on intellectual models? This is what we are pointing to often in terms of our spiritual Thinkng activity. We can come to know, not only that death is a 'phase transition' of consciousness like going to sleep, but exactly why it occurs that way and what broader purposes sleep and death serve in our spiritual evolution.